The violent aesthetic: an introduction
I. Lyric poetry. Witnessing and trophy hunting: writing violence from the great war trenches
Real violence: W. B. Yeats and the Easter Rising
Mimetic damage: the poetry of Northern Ireland's troubles
II. Postcolonial novels. Partition's children: ethnic cleansing on the Indian subcontinent
Slow tyranny: entangled allegory in recent Nigerian novels
III. Testimonial. "Going through with it": Holocaust memoir and the challenge of beauty
Apartheid spectacle: race, drama, and South Africa's state of emergency.